Racial Profiling versus Criminal Profiling

• How did the Ontario Human Rights Commission make a distinction between racial and criminal profiling?

  The Ontario Human Rights Commission made a distinction between racial and criminal profiling:

  • Criminal profiling is based on objective evidence of wrongdoing by an individual.
  • Racial profiling is based on stereotypical assumptions about persons or groups of persons who are deemed more likely to engage in criminal behaviour.
• Carding

  The police practise of street checks; an intelligence-gathering technique used by the police in which persons who have not committed an offence are stopped and questioned. Then, information gathered by the officer is then entered into a police database.